Introduction
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Your Role And Responsibilities
Lead the development and delivery of Gobased components within our portfolio of products for post-quantum cryptography. As a senior engineer, you will own initiatives endtoend and guide the team in building secure and scalable services. Your responsibilities will include:
- Deliver scalable Go microservices following clean coding and securebydefault principles.
- Build highscale RESTful and gRPC APIs using Gin/Protobuf.
- Implement Kafkabased eventdriven workflows using Sarama.
- Design efficient PostgreSQL schemas and optimize performance using GORM.
- Drive testing strategy and contribute highcoverage unit, integration, and e2e tests.
- Implement and enhance observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and structured logging.
- Ensure reliable containerization and Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments.
- Perform advanced debugging, performance tuning, and troubleshooting across distributed systems.
- Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with PM, design, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs.
- Participate in L3 support, incident analysis, and longterm remediation activities.
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- 5+ years backend engineering experience, including 3+ years of production Go development.
- Strong knowledge of Go: concurrency (goroutines, channels), memory model, profiling, and optimization.
- Strong understanding of REST API best practices and experience with Gin/Protobuf.
- Proven distributed systems experience, including async workflows, scaling patterns, and resiliency techniques.
- Proven PostgreSQL + GORM experience, including schema design and query optimization.
- Advanced Docker and Kubernetes skills; familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift.
- Strong debugging and system design capabilities.
- Experience implementing test automation frameworks.
- Experience with multiple data stores (SQL/NoSQL).
- Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, OOP principles, networking basics.
- Clean coding habits, Agile practices, and strong communication skills.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Exposure to data security and cryptography concepts; familiarity with cryptographic coding patterns in Go
- Knowledge of compliance standards (FIPS/NIST) is a plus
- Familiarity with Kafka/Sarama patterns; service mesh, CRDs/operators
- Cloudnative experience (AWS/Azure/IBM)
- Exposure to AI/LLMbased application development
- Experience with Python or Java is a plus
